Power of Words

        Four types of speaking skills were showed today in the videos: slow and deep, fast and emotional, strong and passionate, and calm and passionate. The first speech is clear, but it made a smaller impact because the speaker was not passionate enough. The second speaker was passionate, but his pace was too fast so it was not easy to understand deeply. The third speech had lots of pauses and it had a slow tone, which was easy to understand. The speaker cared about his ideas and that brought a big impact. The forth speech was clam yet passionate at his main point. I like the third style the most because it gives the most impact on audience. It gives the audience time to truly understand the ideas delivered. This is the most suitable style for my speech because my speech contained a lot of information. I learned pausing in Obama’s speech and not caring about mistakes in Zach Wahl’s speech.

         Between the four speeches, Obama’s speech resonate me. For me, the most memorable speech is also his. In his speech, he repeated many keywords such as “Are they just words?” His content really made me think about the fact “are they just words”. He gave strong points, evidences and lots of examples. I am inspired because he brought out an unique point that no one thought of before.